The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-30
THE CITY %CREMATORY.
TIE MATTER OF IT'S RELOCATION
AgnIn n rsIed Q~uestlon-The Health Com.
mitteo Last Night Fail to Agree OIL mn East
Wheeling Site Council to DO Appeal.
cd t0-something Must be Done.

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littee on Health was held at the Public
Building laut evening. This committee
1873 Ind more work 10 attend to than any
,ther committee Of the new Council and
t has nearly all been work Of q very per.
and disagreeablo nature, brought
.bout by the building Of the new garbage
md night soil crematory and tho short
sighted policy shown by the former
Committee and Council, in locating
Inc same on top OF Wheeling hill, a point
that Ia almost inaccessible for a team
hauling anything like a load. To say that
The ppraons who located tho crematory
1t Is and who voted to have 1t built
there, have been cordially cuseed by those
Of tho new Council who have had any.
thing to do with 1t, 10 putting 1t mildly,
Every member OF the present Health
and o large number OF Council
men know irem personal observation that
tho crematory Is a success 80 far Us doing
tho work for which it was intended Ia con.
cerncd, but they alao know that II left
where 1t ia, it will be q never ending
source OF expCnae and complaint.
40 II is now, the crematory can be 70.
moved and put up elsewhere for 500.
But II the iron shed that has already ar.
rived, and has been put aside pending a
decision OF the question as to whether the
crematory shall be removed, ia erected
over tho furnace and 1t should then be
decided to move the concern, tho expense
cannot be less than $1,000. Tho perplex-
ing question is, where shall the crematory
be removed 10? The committee has strug'
gled with tho question without arriving Ct
any definite conclusion. It has asked
Council to decide tho matter md had il
referred back 10 it. Saturday last q sub
committee made q tour OF the city and
viewed proposed sitea. and last nights
meeting was for the purpose OF having
another wrestle over the matter, but like
previous meetings, nothing definite was
arrived at, and the matter is to DO again re
ferred back to Council.
There we're present last night Messrs
Butts, Terrell, Ulfich, Davis, McGregol
and Whyte. Chairman Jaeger and Mr.
Buchanan, OF the committee, we're absent
Health Officer Reed and Keeper seri;
were also present. AS it vas supposed
that's site wouldbe selected and In Gaze THU
was done it wal not desired that the pub,
lie should know where that site was unit
the matter was sprung in Council, thereby
intending to avoid any protests
that might be raised by PEG.
pie living near the locality de
cided o., on account Of the oder that
many ~wrongfully suppose arises from the
cremation, it wac decided to shut tho re-
porters ont. Afterwards, no site having
been chosen, the proceedings were made
public.
MI. Davis in the absence OF Mr.. Jsege,
presided over the meeting. DR.. Ulrich
stated the result OF last Saturdays tour.
There was a site up Caldwell's run, but
owing 10 the distance and roads,
it YVES about as impracticRble
as the preeert site. At the
mouth OF Coal run, beyond tho
Crescent mill, there was q site, but the
slipping nature OF the soil and its proxim-
ity TO the Baltimore 4 Ohio's Hempield
division in case it should change its route
through the city, were objections that put
that locality out Of the question. Charles
LoeGIer, the East Wheeling butcher,
offered the city free, three Of four lots
he owns or the bottoms lear the
hempieli tunnel, provided he wac
allowed 10 erect q slaughter house
on the fourth lot. 1t vii! be remembered
that Mr.. Lotiller has been endeavoring to
get permission t. build On tina. lot ior
over n year. MIR. George X. Wheat up.
pesred before the committee last night
and stated that he and others owning pro.
perty near there would fight such an ar
rargement as hard as they had fought
Mr.. Lotiiler'B slaughter house. AS this
site would il chosen, be materially inter-
ierred with by the i. Il 0.'s change OF
track it WAS abandoned. There was q
piece OF laud out on the peninarlR but
that was too far away.
DR.. ulrich reported further that the
only available location they had found
was on the creek bank between Warren's
oil refinery and the COS works' big storing
tank. II TGs q place centrally located and
was in every respect, he thought, Just the
place for tho %Cremstdry. He moved that
the committee recommend the locating OF
the furnaces there. This brought on II
discussion. Mr.. Terrell violently opposing
the motion. During the discussion DR..
U!rich was called away to attend q
sick patient. Before going he said tbst
when q vote was had he desired 10 DO re-
corded in favor OF the East Wheeling Rlte.
However, when it came to q vote, il was
decided that tho Doctor not being present,
mis- vote could not he counted. Messre,
McGrcgoT and Whytt voted for the sitp,
Mcesfs. Ftrrell and Butta voted against it,
and after celebrating Mr.. Davio did like
wise. Had Mr.. Jaeger and Dr. UIrich
bsen present the mo.lon woald probably
have prevailed.
II was then decided TO report the matter
back 10 Council and ask it 10 RppUin! Il
special joint committee Of Iour ltom each
Branch, and each ward TO have repregen-
tation Oh il, to confer with the Health
Committee in selecting nhito. ThiF double
committee will consist Of sixteen mem
bCra. 1t wac also decided that no time
must be lost and Lu that end, q upccia!
meeting OF COurc:! Tili he called by tho
committee for next Tuesday evening. In
GAGS Council uhouid refuse to this, the
work OF building the iron Ehcd will be ut
ONCE begun; the committee is becoming
desperate. Something must bo done ct
once. On the fist OF May tho provisions
oil the Inv passed by tho Legislature last
month, known as "Bairn'h %pure-wAter
bill" 20 into effect. by that it is made
M oiienee TO dump garbage, otial or dead
carcassesj in any running river or stream.
That would put q stop to dumping al tho
fOot OF FOrty-eighth street.
Tho garbage hauling contracts raa out
April l.. l.ast night the health officer waa
directed, pending aGme definite action in
regard tG The cremGtory to arrange with
the con,ractotG to continue with their
Sorl; during April, TIE compensation to
be onu.twelith the amount they received
duriug the year. In care the Crrm4t0ry is
no! removed from the hill, the cost 10 the
city in increased garbage contracts alone,
will br u: least $1,000.
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